"The Sweetest Thing The Sweetest Thing is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Roger Kumble and written by Nancy Pimental, who based the characters on herself and friend Kate Walsh. It stars Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair. In an opening scene, a group of men are interviewed regarding Christina Walters (Cameron Diaz) who introduce her as a player and a user of men in the swinging singles market. The men include: The scene shifts back to the sexist man whose claims of Christina's lesbianism causes an entire crowd of women to attack him with baseball bats"
"the film ""The Sweetest Thing"". Like her daughter, Priddy is a breast cancer survivor. Nancy Priddy Nancy Lee Priddy (born January 22, 1941) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. As an actress, she has appeared on many television series, including ""Bewitched"", ""The Waltons"", and ""Matlock"". She is the mother of actress Christina Applegate. Priddy was born in South Bend, Indiana, to Katherina Iona (née Driggs) and Carl C. Priddy. She was a member of The Bitter End Singers in 1964, a short-lived folksinging group along with Lefty Baker, Tina Bohlmann, Bob Hider, Norris O'Neill, and Vilma Vaccaro. In 1968, she"
"Diaz and Christina Applegate in the comedy ""The Sweetest Thing"", as the roommate of Diaz's character. While the film received mixed reviews, it grossed US$68.6 million worldwide. For her part, she was nominated for the Teen Choice Awards, in the ""Best Actress in a Comedy"" category. In 2002, Blair appeared on the cover of ""Rolling Stone"", and in a television commercial for The Sims Online video game. She also had a guest role in the episode ""The One with Christmas in Tulsa"" on the hit sitcom ""Friends"". In 2003, Blair co-starred with Jason Lee in the romantic comedy ""A Guy"
"Nancy Pimental Nancy Marie Pimental (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and film and television writer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Pimental attended Somerset High School, graduating in 1983 and she graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where she was a member of the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority with a degree in chemical engineering in 1987. From 1998 to 2001, Pimental was one of the writers of ""South Park"", and in 2002, she wrote the script for the film ""The Sweetest Thing"". She also replaced Jimmy Kimmel as co-host of the Comedy Central game show ""Win Ben Stein's Money"" from"
"In 1998 she starred as the Fairy Godmother in the ITV pantomime ""Jack and the Beanstalk"", alongside actors Neil Morrissey, Adrian Edmondson, Paul Merton, Denise van Outen and Julian Clary. From 1998 until 2000 she played Petula Gordino in Victoria Wood's BBC sitcom ""Dinnerladies"". In 2001, Walters won a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Arthur Miller's ""All My Sons"". She received her second Oscar nomination and won a BAFTA for her supporting role as the ballet teacher in ""Billy Elliot"" (2000). In 2002, she again won a BAFTA for her performance as Paul Reiser's mother in ""My Beautiful"
"The Sure Thing The Sure Thing is a 1985 American romantic comedy film written by Steven L. Bloom and Jonathan Roberts and directed by Rob Reiner. The film stars John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Viveca Lindfors, and Nicollette Sheridan. The film chronicles the cross-country journey of college students Walter Gibson (Cusack) and Alison Bradbury (Zuniga) as they make their way from New England to Los Angeles, each in an effort to meet their ideal match. The origins of the film came from an experience writer Steven L. Bloom had while attending Brown University. During this time, his best friend was attending"
"Fund Foundation, World Animal Protection, and the Trevor Project. Christina Applegate Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American actress and dancer. As an adolescent actress, she started playing the role of Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom ""Married... with Children"" (1987–97). In her adult years, Applegate established a film and television career, winning an Emmy Award and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations. Applegate has had major roles in several films, including ""Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead"" (1991), ""The Big Hit"" (1998), ""The Sweetest Thing"" (2002), ""Grand Theft Parsons"" (2003), """" (2004) and its sequel """" (2013),"
"The Next Best Thing The Next Best Thing is a 2000 American comedy-drama film, the final film directed by John Schlesinger. It stars Madonna, Rupert Everett, and Benjamin Bratt. Two best friendsone a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a heterosexual man and wants to move away with him and Robert's little boy, Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues. The film began as an original screenplay, ""The Red Curtain"", by Tom Ropelewski, which he intended to direct, with his wife Leslie Dixon"
"Christina Applegate Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American actress and dancer. As an adolescent actress, she started playing the role of Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom ""Married... with Children"" (1987–97). In her adult years, Applegate established a film and television career, winning an Emmy Award and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations. Applegate has had major roles in several films, including ""Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead"" (1991), ""The Big Hit"" (1998), ""The Sweetest Thing"" (2002), ""Grand Theft Parsons"" (2003), """" (2004) and its sequel """" (2013), ""Hall Pass"" (2011), ""Vacation"" (2015), and ""Bad Moms"" (2016)."
"Pie"". In 2002, she made her Hollywood film debut with Rob Schneider and Anna Faris in the comedy ""The Hot Chick"", which McAdams has described as a ""huge milestone"" in her career. She played a catty high school student who swaps bodies with Schneider's character, a small-time criminal. Kevin Thomas of the ""Los Angeles Times"" felt she ""emerges as a young actress of much promise"" while Christopher Tookey of the ""Daily Mail"" described McAdams and Faris as ""talents to watch, but they are let down by everything around them"". The film grossed $54 million worldwide. Afterwards, McAdams returned to Canada"
"clearly very attracted to him, and Peter is interviewed like the men at the beginning of the film, retelling his version of the events calling her a bitch and a player, but ultimately revealing that he and Christina are together, having gotten married and are living very happily with Jane and Courtney and Roger as well. Whether they all live together is left ambiguous. On its opening weekend, it earned $9,430,667 on 2,670 screens, ranking #3 behind ""Changing Lanes"" and ""Panic Room"". It eventually grossed $68,696,770 worldwide. ""The Sweetest Thing"" currently has a 26% ""rotten"" rating at Rotten Tomatoes based"
"the People"" (1965). Walter appeared in the first episode of ""Flipper"", shown in September 1964. Also in 1964, she guest-starred in the episode ""How Much for a Prince?"" of CBS's short-lived drama ""The Reporter"". In 1966, she appeared in an episode of ""The Fugitive"" entitled ""The White Knight"". Her earliest notable film role was in the movie ""Play Misty for Me"" (1971), in which she played a young woman with behavior consistent with borderline personality disorder who becomes infatuated with and ultimately stalks a disc jockey. For her performance, Walter received a Golden Globe Award nomination in the Best Motion"
"of the charts in the UK, Italy, Australia, Germany, and Japan. The album also included tracks by Moby, Beth Orton, Christina Aguilera, and Groove Armada. The Next Best Thing The Next Best Thing is a 2000 American comedy-drama film, the final film directed by John Schlesinger. It stars Madonna, Rupert Everett, and Benjamin Bratt. Two best friendsone a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a heterosexual man and wants to move away with him and Robert's little boy, Sam, and a nasty custody"
"Monster (2003 film) Monster is a 2003 biographical crime drama film written and directed by Patty Jenkins. The film is about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for killing six men (she was not tried for a seventh murder) in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Wuornos was played by Charlize Theron; her semi-fictionalized lover, Selby Wall (based on Wuornos's real-life girlfriend Tyria Moore), was played by Christina Ricci. Theron received critical acclaim and won numerous awards for her portrayal, including the Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best"
"being that she has poisoned the drink. Wild Things 2 Wild Things 2 is a 2004 erotic thriller film directed by Jack Perez and starring Susan Ward, Leila Arcieri, Isaiah Washington and Linden Ashby. It is a sequel to ""Wild Things"" (1998) and the second film in the ""Wild Things"" series. The film was released on DVD on April 20, 2004. Brittney Havers, a South Florida high school senior, lives with her wealthy stepfather, Niles Dunlap, after her mother ran her car off the road in ""Gator Alley"" and was presumably eaten by alligators a year earlier. When Dunlap is"
"and was nominated for five Academy Awards. Grossing over $33 million in limited theatrical release, it is still the highest-grossing French-language film released in the United States. In 2002, she acted in the British thriller film ""Dirty Pretty Things"" directed by Stephen Frears and written by Steven Knight, a drama about two illegal immigrants in London. It was produced by BBC Films and Celador Films. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won a British Independent Film Award for ""Best Independent British Film"" in 2003. In 2004, she starred in ""A Very Long Engagement"","
"and ""Nash Bridges"". Walters played Lila in ""Cold Mountain"" in 2003, and Andrea Treborn in ""The Butterfly Effect"" in 2004. She guest-starred as Sylvia Greene on ""Desperate Housewives"" in 2007, and played the role of Wanda Henrickson in the HBO drama ""Big Love"" from 2006 to 2010. In 2017, it was announced that Walters would write for her directorial debut film ""Waterlily Jaguar"", about a struggling novelist attempting to write a more serious book; James LeGros also stars in the film. Walters played the suspected victim in the episode """" of the NBC series """". Melora Walters Melora Walters (born"
"Cyia Batten Cyia Batten (born January 26, 1972) is an American dancer, model and film/television actress as well as former Pussycat Dolls dance troupe member. She has worked as a professional dancer all over the world for various projects including The Pussycat Dolls and Carmen Electra, Teatro Comunale di Firenze and others. She has had roles in ""Charlie Wilson's War"", """", """", ""The Sweetest Thing"" and ""Killer Movie"" and on such TV shows as """", """", """" and ""Crossing Jordan"" as well as numerous appearances as different characters on """", """", """", and ""Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"". Batten"
"showing the first five digits of π (pi). American singer Madonna released a cover version of the song in March 2000 to promote the soundtrack of her film ""The Next Best Thing"" (2000), with the song being serviced to radio on February 2. Her cover is much shorter than the original (it contains only the beginning of the first verse and all of the second and sixth verses) and was recorded as a dance-pop song. It was co-produced by Madonna and William Orbit and released on the singer's Maverick label, after Rupert Everett (Madonna's co-star in ""The Next Best Thing"")"
"Lisa Ann Walter Lisa Ann Walter (born August 3, 1963) is an American actress, comedian, writer and film producer. She has appeared in such films as the 1998 version of ""The Parent Trap"", ""Bruce Almighty"", ""Shall We Dance"", and ""War of the Worlds"". Walter also created and starred in the short-lived 1996–1997 sitcom, ""Life's Work"". She was a judge on ABC's reality television series """". She also won for her charity in a celebrity edition of ""The Weakest Link"". Walter was born and raised in suburban Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., where she remembers ""always liking to show off"""
"Piper Laurie Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; January 22, 1932) is an American stage and screen actress known for her roles in the films ""The Hustler"" (1961), ""Carrie"" (1976), and ""Children of a Lesser God"" (1986), all of which brought her Academy Award nominations. She is also known for her performances as Kirsten Arnesen in the original TV production of ""Days of Wine and Roses"" and as Catherine Martell in the cult television series ""Twin Peaks"", for which she won a Golden Globe Award in 1991. In 2018, she appeared in the film ""White Boy Rick"". Piper Laurie was born"
"the films ""Hot Rod"", ""Hamlet 2"" and """" (with Parker and Stone), and Nancy Pimental, who served as co-host of ""Win Ben Stein's Money"" and wrote the film ""The Sweetest Thing"" after her tenure with the show during its first three seasons. Television producer and writer Norman Lear, an idol of both Parker and Stone, served as a guest writing consultant for the season seven (2003) episodes ""Cancelled"" and ""I'm a Little Bit Country"". During the 12th and 13th seasons, ""Saturday Night Live"" actor and writer Bill Hader served as a creative consultant and co-producer. After exchanging ideas, Parker will"
"Wild Things 2 Wild Things 2 is a 2004 erotic thriller film directed by Jack Perez and starring Susan Ward, Leila Arcieri, Isaiah Washington and Linden Ashby. It is a sequel to ""Wild Things"" (1998) and the second film in the ""Wild Things"" series. The film was released on DVD on April 20, 2004. Brittney Havers, a South Florida high school senior, lives with her wealthy stepfather, Niles Dunlap, after her mother ran her car off the road in ""Gator Alley"" and was presumably eaten by alligators a year earlier. When Dunlap is killed in a private plane crash, his"
"Diana Scarwid Diana Elizabeth Scarwid (born August 27, 1955) is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Christina Crawford in the cult classic ""Mommie Dearest"" (1981). She earned an Academy Award nomination for her performance in the 1980 film ""Inside Moves"", and an Emmy Award nomination for her work in the television film ""Truman"" (1995). Scarwid has over 70 film and television credits to her name, including ""Pretty Baby"" (1978), ""Rumble Fish"", ""Silkwood"" (both 1983), ""Psycho III"", ""Extremities"" (both 1986), ""The Neon Bible"" (1995), ""What Lies Beneath"" (2000), ""Party Monster"" (2003), ""The Clearing"" (2004), and ""Another"
"The Ultimate Christmas Present The Ultimate Christmas Present is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Brenda Song and Hallee Hirsh. It premiered December 1, 2000 on Disney Channel as part of their Christmas season. Two teen girls, Samantha Elizabeth ""Sam"" Kwan (age 13) (Brenda Song) and Allison Rachel ""Allie"" Thompson (age 13) (Hallee Hirsh) find a weather machine at a shack in the woods. After learning of its controls, they use it to make it snow in Los Angeles. It turns out that the weather machine belongs to Santa Claus (John B. Lowe) and he informs Mrs. Claus about"
"High School. She became Miss Teen All American in 1981, representing Georgia. Walters started her television career playing Lorna Forbes Perelli on the soap opera ""Loving"" from the pilot on June 1983 to late 1986. Her first role after ""Loving"" was in the 1987 film Russkies. Aaron Spelling used Walters in several of his productions: in ""Hotel"" during its last season (as Ryan Thomas) 1987–1988; in the 1988 television miniseries ""Elvis and Me"" as Priscilla Presley; in ""Nightingales"" (as Bridget Loring) 1988–1989; in ""Melrose Place"" (as Tiffany Hart). Other credits include a starring role in 1990 in ""Dear John"", the"
"John Lehr John Lehr (born November 25, 1965) is an American film and television actor and comedian. Lehr was born on November 25, 1965 in Overland Park, Kansas. He went to high school at Shawnee Mission West High. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1988. While attending Northwestern, he worked as a substitute teacher at Kilmer Elementary School on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. He later received his teaching certificate and taught full time at Kilmer Elementary. Lehr converted to Judaism in 2000. Lehr appears in the movie ""The Sweetest Thing"", starring Christina Applegate, as a man driving a"
"2005, she was voted #65 on ""Maxim"" magazine's Hot 100 list. Leila Arcieri Leila Carmelita Arcieri (born December 18, 1973) is an American actress, model and businesswoman. She was Miss San Francisco in the 1997 Miss California pageant and has appeared in many films such as ""XXX"", ""Wild Things 2"" and ""Daddy Day Care"". Arcieri is the founder and president of the natural sweetener brand STIR Sweetener. Arcieri was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of an Italian American father and African-American mother, Anita Van Buyten. Arcieri spent the better part of her childhood in Sebastopol, located in California's"
"Singles from the record include ""Graduation (Friends Forever)"" and her most successful hit, the Top 20 Gold certified ""Smile"". Her second album, ""More"" (2001) spawned several singles, including ""As Long as You're Loving Me"" and ""The Itch"". She would return to acting in 2000, appearing in the horror film ""Dracula 2000"" (2000), as well as having cameo appearances in ""Scary Movie 2"" (2001) and ""Get Over It"" (2001), and appeared as a panelist on the spoof talent series ""The WB's Superstar USA"" in 2004. She was ranked No. 76 on the ""Maxim"" Hot 100 Women of 2001. Mattel released a"
"Kathryn Joosten Kathryn Joosten (December 20, 1939 – June 2, 2012) was an American television actress. Her best known roles include Dolores Landingham on NBC's ""The West Wing"" from 1999 to 2002 and Karen McCluskey on ABC's ""Desperate Housewives"" from 2005 to 2012, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2005 and 2008. Joosten was born Kathryn Rausch in Chicago, Illinois to Dutch-German parents. Her first career was as a psychiatric nurse at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, living in nearby Lake Forest, Illinois, where she married a psychiatrist and raised two sons. Following her 1980 divorce, she"
"and for which she received multiple Grammy Award nominations, including for her number-one hit and signature song, ""Save the Best for Last"". Her recent studio albums include ""Everlasting Love"" (2005) and ""The Real Thing"" (2009). As an actress, Williams enjoyed success on both stage and screen, receiving an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for her portrayal of Teri Joseph in the film ""Soul Food"" (1997). Her best known television roles are that of Wilhelmina Slater on ""Ugly Betty"" (2006–10), for which she was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress"
"Emily Browning Emily Jane Browning (born 7 December 1988) is an Australian actress and singer. Browning made her film debut in the Australian television film ""The Echo of Thunder""; subsequently, she played roles in the Australian television shows ""High Flyers"", ""Blue Heelers"" and ""Something in the Air"". Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 horror film ""Ghost Ship"", which introduced her to a wider audience. In 2005, Browning won the Australian Film Institute International Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Violet Baudelaire in the film ""Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"" (2004). Browning is also known for"
"Best Picture. Her performance in the film earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Walters voiced the Lexi Decoder (LEXI) for Channel 4 during the 2016 Paralympic Games. The graphical system aims to aid the viewing experience of the games by debunking the often confusing classifications that govern Paralympic sport. Walters was engaged in the early 1970s but called off the wedding three weeks before, feeling she was not ready for marriage. She was in a relationship with actor Pete Postlethwaite for five years in the mid-1970s. Walters' relationship with Grant Roffey,"